Acer Aspire 5740G Owners Lounge

I am using Win 7 64 bit... So what now?

There were no CDs or DVDs in box from laptop

 

Follow the directions from the prevous comment. It should be called LaunchManager.

 

You are right. Good that they finally made it with call of pripyat. i launched it today and got some solid 20fps even on max details with aa x8 set in ccc. Thats great because these pixelated edges hurt my eyes

 

Hi!

I've being testing with my HDD Caddy and I made some advances.

I realized that our bios sucks and it doesn't recognise the caddy. Since sata is a Hotplug port you can plug the caddy once you are in Windows, so you can make the system work with 2 Hard Disk.

I Tried to flash the PB bios that was posted in the bios thread and I broke my computer reflashing back the original BIOS, now my computer is being fixed in Acer's SAT hehe.

I will try to reflash the bios and make some other test once I have my laptop back.

All I want for this computer is a bios working nativelly with 2 hard disks, thasts an easy thing for Acer to do....

 

Hello, I've been searching for an online shop that sells this laptop.
"Acer Aspire 5740G-6979" Should be the same as in first post.

Maybe anyone of you knows a shop where i could buy it? That ships to Europe.

Thanks.

 

Where are you located?

 

Latvia, also buying a laptop here wouldn't be the best idea, since it would cost 50% more then abroad..

 

It's pretty hard to get one of these- you could still buy one in Poland which should be close enough if they agree to ship to you.
AS5740G-434G32MN i5-430M/4096/320/DVD-RW/7HP64

That would cost you some 660 Euro (VAT included).

 

I bought it here at polish auction site and its still available, dont know if they ship abroad
Acer 5740 5740G i5-430M 4GB HD5650 1GB Windows 7 (1341240693) - Aukcje internetowe Allegro

 

Greets,
If you are intrested in buying one in Poland you could try search here Sk?piec.pl :: Porównanie cen w 1700 sklepach internetowych and when you pick the notebook and shop in which they got the notebook you might try to ask if they ship abroad.

Anyways, like 6 days ago I bought Acer Aspire 5740g ( Acer AS5740G-434G32MN i5-430M/4096/320/DVD-RW/7HP64 - Notebook / Laptop 15,6" - Sklep komputerowy - X-KOM.PL) and I saw on forum that there is some battery/bios issue so I went to check my bios version and it is 1.22. As I see it can be downloaded from Acer homepage and I am wondering why it isn't posted here (in the second post). Any issues with that bios or is it kinda new so it wasn't put in here yet?

//BT

 

BIOS 1.22 update is on the 2nd post...

 

Right. I guess I though it is bios only for ATI and didn't count it. My mistake Anyways it includes 1.16 right?

//BT

 

Yes, just update to BIOS 1.22. You don't need to install previous versions.

 

If anyone is interested I have mine for sale.

600€ with internal Bluetooth 2.1 and Intel Wifi 6200 a/b/g/n

 

Hi guys.Does mean i have BIOS v1.22?And if i do,do i need to install the one from acer site or there is no need to?

 

You do have the most recent BIOS so you don't have to worry about that.

 

Hello everybody !
Is there a way to automatically switch the engine and memory settings in AMD GPU clock tool when i'm switching the power plans ?
And also, what clocks would you recommend to use in Balanced plan ?

 

Driver update:

Synaptics Touchpad driver v 15.1.18.0 courtesy of station-drivers.com

I haven't tested it yet.

 

installed and works well

 

Hello. I have problem with my keyboard on my aspire 5740G. When I play FIFA and press up arrow+left arrow+D at once my laptop didn't recognize the "D" key. I've searched over internet and found that this bug is called ghost keyboard or something like that. So i want to ask is there any solution for this problem?

 

Not that I know of- several users have complained about this and I've posted an almost-complete list of not working key combinations but I don't think it can be changed or improved in any way.

 

ahuahuahuahuahuah i have tried 3dmark 2011 with my 5740G with i7 620 3.3 ghz, hd5470 512 mb set clock 870 gpu and 950 mem....hauahuahuahuahuah only 502 point at 3dmark 2011

 

That would be a different story with a HD 5650.

 

My score with my usual OC 670/900 is P1210 and it seems valid as in rendered in proper resolution.
That said- what I see on the screen is probably re-scaled to 720x768 although rendered properly by the GPU- otherwise my score would have been a lot better.
You have to admit it looks dreadful

 

Unfortunately there isn't.All keyboards i have used Desktop,laptop or other have some key combinations that don't work.The interesting part is that a combination that doesn't work on keyboard A works on keyboard B,but combination not working on keyboard B works on keyboard A.So you just have to get used to it.

 

It is not a bug. It is a weakness of the standard/normal keyboard. To overcome this, you need keyboard with anti-ghosting capability. Usually anti-ghosting feature only available on gaming keyboard. I never heard or don't know any notebook which come with anti-ghosting keyboard. What you can do is use a desktop gaming keyboard with anti-ghosting feature. Usually there are two types of anti-ghosting keyboard; 1) limited combination of anti-ghosting keys (usually WASD) & 2) full anti-ghosting keyboard like Microsoft’s SideWinder X4.

I use Razer Arctosa. It provided partial anti-ghosting keys (W-A-S-D).

 

http://i54.tinypic.com/2mqvlh2.jpg

hello
Can you share the system idle temperatures?
rises above 50 degrees makes a whistling noise in the fan.

How do I reduce the temperature?
I can not use setfsb.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...info-benchmarks-tweaks-mods-upgrades-779.html
Bronsky's 3820tg idle degrees is 27

Sorry for my bad english

 

Your temps are OK- same as mine.
As for Bronsky- note that his laptop was on battery power when the screenshot was taken meaning power-saving profile.

 

Thank you.

I take that ss on balanced.

 

So i just finished adding arctic silver 5 on my GPU and CPU. How long does it take for full effect?

 

I'm relying on my memory (read sclerosis ) now but I think it's up to 100 hours. You should use it moderately for ~8h or so and then let it cool down (as in switch off the notebook) for several hours.

 

Would reccomend to update to the latest driver from Realtek (2.55). Popping during start up has been fixed, sounds normal, mic works fine.

 

To whom it may concern,

My cousin owns an Acer 5740 Laptop. Several questions for you guys,

1: Can you swap out the screen for an 1920x1080?
2: Can you put an higher graphic card in it?
3: Does anyone know where to buy an optical Blu Ray Player for this model?

Thanks for the the timely answers.

-D

 

1. I don't know- Full HD are double LVDS (I think it's the right abbreviation) so it may not be easy to use Full HD screen on 5740G

2. No- it's soldiered into the mobo. Overclocking is the best he can do.

3. I see quite a few Blu-ray slim drivers on e-bay. That shouldn't be a problem although I imagine it wouldn't make much sense without a Full HD screen, would it?

Thanks for the info.

 

But we still have the annoying BEEP everytime we plug/unplug the laptop.

 

I don't think there is an official fix to remove the PC beep.

There are temporary fixes like using an older Realtek driver or Windows default sound driver, but they aren't perfect and are missing some important features.

 

hello again

i have a problem...when running on battery,i don't get notified for low battery.it notifies me only when i get in 5 %,saves the progress,and shut down,propably destroying my battery.also,there is the possibility (i am not sure about this,gonna check it out and report back soon) that it goes from 12-13 % to 5 % by skipping all the other numbers .

any ideas?

 

in the past few days i've spent some time with the notebook
i've the strong feeling that, using windows 7, acer epower management utility is totally useless.
with moderate/mixed usage (wi-fi web browsing, office tasks) battery life is the same when epower is installed and when it isn't....

i just don't know how it happened, but after messing quite a lot with drivers (mainly realtek and ati ones) it "went away".
which is not very nice, as i find it quite useful

 

I've just checked and you can get rid of it as long as you have the slider for PC Beep in Levels, the slider doesn't do much but the mute button kills the beep. If you don't have the slider just read how to get it on page 1 I think - it's definately in the thread, but once you have the reg entry it will stay even if you update the drivers.

PS What max OC frequencies have you guys achieved? Mine went through 3DMark with 700/950 score P1264. The core could go higher possibly but the bottleneck is the memory (firm max level) so there isn't any point in trying.

PPS sykrot, once you put the paste in by the time you have loaded the laptop and tested it you should know whether there is a difference.

 

That's why I removed it. I couldn't even access it in any way...and I don't see any difference either.

 

my theory is confirmed.till 11 % everything works great.when i reach 10%, it rapidly goes to 5% and shuts down.

is this a bios problem?or the battery faulty?
any ideas?

 

guys a i was wondering if the ati 5650 hd has enough juice fer mlaa...anyone tried it ?? does mlaa require more performance than aa??

has anyone tried to install 10.10e on acer 5740g?? im not getting an option to install ati display driver...n no catalyst control after install....

 

MLAA is not real AA- it's a post processing filter so it's much less demanding compared non normal AA. I can't enable it though- no such option in official drivers and modded ones don't work (the checkbox is there but it enables normal AA instead of MLAA)

 

only enabling mlaa on 6xxx will cause it to sell better? marketing reasons...
downloads did you try this solution:
AMD/ATI now offering MLAA with the 6xxx series. 4xxx and 5xxx locked out. - High Def Forum - Your High Definition Community & High Definition Resource

 

thanks guys....i tried a software called radeon pro....its got the option of morphological filter(mlaa right?)...but its greyed out... guess gotta wait fer 10.12 ccc....when will it out??

 

hi,
Does anyone have a link to this acer hotkey soft?

//BT

 

What do you mean- Launch Manager?

 

http://global-download.acer.com/GDF...ep3=Aspire 5741G&OS=721&LC=en&BC=Acer&SC=PA_4

 

@ GP-SE
Last time I checked (long time ago though) Launch Manager v 4 didn't work on 5740G- has this changed?

 

Yeah Launch Manager - didn't know the name.

Downloaded it and cannot install "Launch Manager is unable to install because the system is not supported." (I have Win7 Pro x64) I can launch it and it apear in process list however no images are displayed after pressing hotkeys so I guess it is not working.

EDIT:
@re down:
Already did that

//BT